Keith Adams Speaking to Jaguar engineers, one thing that they’re particularly proud of is just how little separates the XKR-S Coupe and the Convertible dynamically. They’ll tell you that it does what it needs to at the Nurburgring Nordschliefe, and can complete the lap in a time that starts with a ‘seven’. So, seriously capable. [...]

Keith Adams AROnline’s invite to the MINI Coupe launch in Austria coincided with one broken foot, so we’ve yet to sample the delights of Britain’s newest coupe first hand. It’s a fascinating car, the R58, and one that’s certainly dividing the opinions of our readership – but the undoubted facts are that it’s well judged [...]

Keith Adams The Range Rover Evoque has gone down a storm if the first tranche of drives at the International launch are anything to go by. It’s a genre-busting car, which Land Rover is hoping, will encourage style conscious user-choosers out of their Audi TTs and into something a whole lot more practical. We’ve yet [...]

Keith Adams An amazing thing happened back in 2008  - global sales of two-pedal cars overtook their three-pedal counterparts. Roads have become more congested and so fewer people want the bother of a clutch. That’s why so many supercars are fitted with paddle-shifters – and why Lotus has launched the Evora IPS – Intelligent Precision Shift. IPS adds £1800 [...]

Keith Adams There’s no doubt about it – Jaguar is on form right now. The marque has a three-car range that it can truly be proud of, is generating record profits and looks set for a huge production increase with the arrival of the XF 2.2D later this year so it’s on the back of this burgeoning [...]

Richard Aucock MINI has officially done what aftermarket tuners have been doing for years: fit a big-capacity motor to a car which still competes in a small capacity sector. No Honda VTECs for this baby, either: in true BMW engine-engineering ‘that shouldn’t be possible’ style, the firm has fitted a 2.0-litre turbodiesel to the MINI Cooper [...]

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics AROnline’s Editor, Keith Adams, has already given readers his First Drive impressions of the new MG6 1.8T TSE and, like our colleagues at Autocar, Auto Express and CAR Magazine, he concluded that ‘it’s rather good, with one or two rough edges.’ However, Keith was keen to give readers [...]

Keith Adams Well, here it is at last. After three years of speculation, discussion and politicizing, we’ve driven the MG6 on British roads. Let’s get this out of the way first before moving on: the MG6 is a very good driver’s car, and one that the British Engineers, Designers and – yes – Assembly Line workers [...]

Keith Adams I wouldn’t say that the XJ is a make-or-break car for Jaguar commercially, as the XF and XK have both proven highly successful for the leaping cat. However, in one respect, the XJ is hugely important to the company – it represents the final stage of a three-phase plan to replace retro design [...]

Adam Sloman The new five door MINI Countryman had its international launch in Hamburg, Germany last week. AROnline Contributor Adam Sloman was there to try it out. At over four metres long, the Countryman is the biggest MINI yet, and it’s the first to be built away from the famous Oxford plant, with production being based [...]

Clive Goldthorp Our Editor, Keith Adams, normally undertakes AROnline’s Test Drive duties – I do not really have the driving skills necessary to push new models to their limits and provide informed feedback to our readers. However, when Keith’s Octane commitments precluded him from joining me at MG Birmingham last week and MG Motor UK’s [...]

It’s the first new MG hot-hatch since the Zed cars burst onto the scene in 2001 in an attempt to sex-up the frumpy Rover range. We drive the MG6 and come away with the distinct impression that the Anglo-Chinese hot-hatch is a step in the right direction. Words: Nigel Garton Pictures: car.autohome.com.cn Date: 24 Dec [...]

After three years and one or two false starts, the MG TF LE500 finally goes on sale in the UK and Ireland. Once the darling of the convertible set, has the reborn MG lost its sheen during the intervening years? Words and pictures: Keith Adams It’s back, but is it any good? IN 1992, the [...]

It’s the most anticipated new Jaguar since the XJ40, and is probably the most important since William Lyons set up shop and decided to build something a little bit special – but does the XF live up to the hype? RICHARD PORTER, fresh his first revealing drive reckons that it is… (From the launch of [...]

WE’D been left waiting for a while… but after a hiatus of just over 18 months, production of the Rover 75 restarted. And to greet the re-invention, some style improvements were made – oh yes, and it’s now made in China. The Roewe 750E might look like a Rover 75, and could well feel like [...]

While the rest of the world concentrated on the potent turbocharged MINI Cooper S, we took its normally aspirated brother for a thrash around the Spanish Pyrénées – and learned quite a bit about how the new car handled… Words: Keith Adams Pictures: Phil Weeden Download the wallpaper | 1024×768 | 1280×960 Smoothed and digitized… [...]

After five years in production, a new MINI, codenamed R56 is just about ready for launch at the Paris Motor Show this autumn. MIKE DUFF was granted an exclusive technical drive of the new car at Holland’s Zandvoort racing circuit. He came away impressed… Evolution, not revolution THE motor industry normally operates under the sort [...]

Since the moment the MG ZT 260 V8 was launched, Rover fans have been clamouring for their own version of this car… Geneva 2004 finally saw their wishes fulfilled, with the launch of this car. However, it has an altogether less sporting brief than the MG version – does that mean that the Rover is [...]

Launched in November 2003, the MG ZT 260 V8 heralded a return of the rear wheel drive V8 super-saloon to the MG Rover fold. It has been lauded by all who have driven it, including us, but how does the Longbridge bruiser stack up under closer scrutiny? Phil Mitchell on wheels… MG ROVER has to [...]

After a long wait, the rear wheel drive MG ZT made an appearance in September 2003. Many people were curious, worried even, that it would not deliver the goods, given its limited budget… Saddened after the loss of his SD1 Vitesse, Keith Adams takes the new car for a spin, and finds that comparisons between [...]